Picturing War's Wounded and Dead – NYTimes.com

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Picturing War’s Wounded and Dead

There is no telling how people will react to realistic images and written reports that show war for what it is. But such images do serve a purpose.

via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/picturing-wars-wounded-and-dead/

“For centuries pictures of the dead and wounded have been part and parcel of war communications. Often the intentions were clear, ranging from medical instruction to anti-war protests. The public’s response could coincide with or diverge from the publisher’s intention.”

Anyone who has survived or covered a conflict, and interacted with the people who have suffered grievously from war, would recognize the ringing truth in the third sentence of this statement, which opens the preface to an article in an issue this summer in the journal Medicine, Conflict and Survival.